The Fantastic Mr. Fox ranks much higher in the secret movie-dork listicle inscribed on my heart. And that’s partly for the deep creeping sadness under its gags and jokes. As the Bobby Fuller Four played over the credits, I felt immense melancholy while I was still smiling about the last run of jokes.

Let’s not overlook another piece of the puzzle: Disney inherited this film from Fox Searchlight during the 2019 merger. And they don’t seem especially eager to support holdover projects.

The story is the singular reason why Other M is so reviled.

Going to lean in here and make note to anyone reading that the biggest criticism of this game is an entirely subjective one.

This janky-ass game really made my day during last year’s pandemic doldrums. I work in education, so before I managed to get vaccinated I really couldn’t mess around with public places. I had a lot of time to pour into an online campaign with my brother, who was also not interested in braving the nose-proud masses.

When I clicked, I was not expecting this level of into-the-weeds detail. Now, with all of this in mind, I’m probably still gonna get gibbed by middle-schoolers. The ravages of time have been gentler to Quake than to my reflexes.

Removing annoying emotes, limiting which skins can be used, and removing loading screen tips that talk about headshots would be a good start if Epic truly wants to use Fortnite as a tool to educate.

On most days, I think of Jack Antonoff as the Brian Eno of banality, who scoops up artists at a turning point and filters them through his far-edge-of-accessible pop sound.

“What’s next for me, it looks like, is [an] Alien series for FX, taking on that franchise and those amazing films by Ridley Scott and James Cameron and David Fincher,” he said.

It’s been a long time since I saw it, but I remember liking Alien 3. I’ve heard about the various pieces that were supposed to make it into the final version and didn’t, but I thought it was a solid, effective SF thriller.

The first AvP movie isn’t good, but it’s not awful, especially for a Paul W. S. Anderson movie, and it stars Sanaa Lathan, like more movies should.

In retrospect, FF13 feels like the blueprint for FF15 and the remake. It builds on the continuous spaces of FFX, with no world map, and gives them a more cinematic appearance. Toward the end, it develops an almost open-world area. And its combat is more fluid than the previous menu systems, but it does not disguise…

Directors and performers often invent more backstory than they reveal to the audience. It’s a way to give the performances a sense of depth beyond the immediate needs of the plot, so that characters behave as if they have walked onto the screen with their lives already in motion. They may deliver their lines with…

I enjoyed the first game. Alas, my plans to play the others were thwarted when Apple dropped 32-bit support. So it goes.

Does this mean Hamlet and Horatio are gay because it seems to me that he’s way more interested in spending time with his servant buddy than Ophelia?

Despite what Mackie said, regardless of Casarosa’s intent, if you viewed Luca as a queer allegory—and, in doing so, it enriched your understanding of the Pixar film, and maybe even the way you look back on your own coming-of-age story—embrace that. You didn’t view the movie, or the series, or the piece of art wrong;…

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

I loved Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The sequel was disappointing despite some fun ideas and abilities. And their Tomb Raider sequel had the best tombs of the new trilogy, even if the story was prone to heavyosity.

The sad thing is, she’s still an extremely good writer, and arguably a good critic, but only when she “gets it”, and surprisingly often, she just doesn’t “get it”. Reading her wikipedia entry I see this is actually not an uncommon criticism of her, apparently I’m not alone in thinking this.

He also made Absolute Power, which randomly I watched for the first time this week. (Boredom+Tubi)